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William Shakespeare? Neil Simon?
No. Agatha Christie.
Any theater company that craves a crowd-pleasing box office hit knows that putting an Agatha Christie work on the schedule is akin to printing money.
Home Made Theater will do one better.
Their production won’t be a mere Agatha Christie mystery — HMT is presenting “And Then There Were None,” the work that made Christie a legend. While “The Mousetrap” is her longest running play, and you can argue that “Witness for the Prosecution” is her best play, the craftsmanship of “And Then There Were None” defines Christie as the master of the genre.
The setting of the play is an isolated island to which 10 guests arrive. No one knows anyone else and they appear to have absolutely nothing in common. One by one the guests are murdered. Not only murdered, but killed in accordance to an old nursery rhyme that foretells how the next person will die. Adding to the mystery, the rhyme ends with “And then there were none,” making it seem impossible to figure out “whodunit.”
Directing the play for Home Made Theater is Dianne O’Neill Filer, who calls the play “brilliantly crafted” and describes Christie as a “very clever playwright.”
“She drops hints all throughout the play, along with red herrings by the acre,” Filer said. “Yet it is almost impossible to figure out who is committing the murders.”
Filer pointed out that though the play was first produced in 1943 and several film versions have been made (most under the title “Ten Little Indians”), audiences are still surprised at the ending. Continued...
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